lubrication payment
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lubrication payment
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By a metaphor in which facilitating human socioeconomic interaction is portrayed as lubricating machinery (e.g., oiling the gears, greasing the wheels); in this regard, compare also social lubricant.
noun lubrication payments
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A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.
A lubrication payment is a small payment to low-level business people or government officials to "grease the wheels" of business.
Similar: grease payment, grease money, palm oil, baksheesh
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noun euphemism for a bribe
| Deutsch | Schmiergeld |
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